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INTERNAL ASSIGNMENT APPLICABLE FOR DECEMBER 2022 EXAMINATION

 

Business: Ethics, Governance & Risk

1. Go through the Management Discussion and Analysis Section of the Annual Report (2020-21) of any ONE listed company (refer to: top 200 companies by turnover – NSE or BSE List). Under Enterprise Risk Management, identify one economic risk and one risk related to Covid 19 Pandemic. Explain and analyse in your own words, what according to the company are the,

a) impacts of these risks on business and

b) what is the mitigation strategy identified & developed by the company to manage these risks.

(10 Marks)

2. From the Sustainability Report of any one listed company from across the globe, select any ONE social initiative adopted and practiced by the company. Explain in your own words the following;

(i) the purpose of the initiative – its ethical foundation

(ii) the modality/process of how the initiative is practiced and delivered

(iii) what are the outcomes/impacts expected and whether they are measured, monitored and reported clearly (10 Marks)

3. a. Are you aware that you are being tracked and watched while you are surfing the net. The advertisers observe your surfing behavior and accordingly target their ads at you. You end up exposing your supposed needs unawares as someone is stealing data about your online surfing patterns. This kind of tracking and placing ads in the surfer’s path is known as contextual targeting. What is the inherent moral issue here? Why is it an issue? What does law say about it. (5 Marks)

3. b. Marketer’s say prohibition of tracking takes away the marketer’s legitimate right to study consumer behavior. Which side do you agree with and what are your two reasons for doing so? (5 Marks)

 

Compensation and Benefits

1. Your company, an Agritech startup which had a humble beginning is now gone for merger with a big MNC. Looking at that now the new management has decided to formulate compensation strategies. Before penning down the strategies, the HR Manager considers it necessary to identify factors that influence the compensation strategies. You, as an employee of HR Department, are assigned this task of identifying these factors. (10 Marks)

2. In the past few years your organization has achieved marvelous results and had manifold growth. The success of the organization has skyrocketed based on which you are opening up a subsidiary in various other foreign(country) locations. You as HR manager has to device an international compensation. To your management present what is an international compensation and its the key components (discuss all components in detail) (10 Marks)

3. Food & Health Pvt Ltd is a wholesome and organic food chain which after capturing a huge and overwhelming success in the online market is now venturing into retail business. The HR is now confused because earlier all their employees were part time or work from home but now, they have to engage people in full time capacity. You are an Asst. Manager HR and have been asked by your senior to do work on this issue. You have an idea to formalize this through compensation survey

a. Explain to them what is salary /compensation survey and how will it serve purpose in Food & Health? (5 Marks)

b. Explain to them types of survey, which you would want to do and suggest which would be best suited for the organization. (5 Marks)

 

Industrial Relations & Labour Laws

1. ‘The industrial relations scenario has been perceived differently by different practitioners and theorists’, Explain. (10 Marks)

2. Trade unions in India have evolved after independence. Elaborate. (10 Marks)

3. Write briefly on:

a. AITUC and INTUC (5 Marks)

b. BMS and HMS (5 Marks)

 

Lean Six Sigma

1. Six Sigma encompasses statistical tools and methodology to perform predictive analysis. Applying the DAMIC process teams must provide statistical analysis of Covid-19 pandemic from any 1 industry concern of your choice. Depending on the selected approach to address the concern different tools will be employed throughout DMAIC process to narrow Key Process Input Variables (KPIVs) that are driving unacceptable output(s). The analysis of the concern utilizing DMAIC process must include only tools necessary to resolve the concern. The focus should concentrate on a clear and minimalistic path to resolving the concern. You are free to follow any research, data collection and or analysis methodology that you consider the most appropriate to address the required task. (10 Marks)

2. Suppose you are working as a facilities manager in a big multi-specialty hospital which intends to adopt the lean technique for efficient management, identify any process/activity that needs improvement and create a board outline in brief using DMAIC methodology (10 Marks)

3. a. Implementing Lean Six Sigma projects in various organizations have led to the reduction of different types of wastes (8 Mudas), provide example (any 1) of each type of waste reduced due to implementation of lean six sigma in that organization. (5 Marks)

3. b. Enlist at least 5 Indian companies which have implemented Six Sigma in a successful manner. Also specify at least 2 substantial benefits achieved from implementation by each of the 5 Indian companies. (5 Marks)

 

Manpower Planning, Recruitment and Selection

1. What are the common difficulties faced by IT companies related to manpower planning? (10 Marks)

2. Why Performance Appraisal is important? What can be the threats to performance appraisal? (10 Marks)

3. 360- degree feedback is effective way of appraising the performance of employees provided it

is designed and implemented scientifically.

a. Give reasons of how 360 degrees feedback is an effective method of performance appraisal. (5 Marks)

b. While using this method, organizations might come across some difficulties. What kind of difficulties can be faced by the organizations and how those difficulties can be addressed? (5 Marks)

 

New Product Development and Managing Innovation

1. With the help of an example, explain the different product/technology lifecycle stages. Use the example business scenario to explain different aspects of the product/technology lifecycle stages (10 Marks)

2. What are the different elements of product packaging? What roles does packaging serve? Look at packaging from the lens of eComm in India (eg. Amazon, Big Basket, Myntra, Meesho etc.) and what do you think is the significance of product packaging in this? (10 Marks)

3. a. Why should companies innovate? How is innovation different from invention? Explain with the help of an example (5 Marks)

3. b. Based on technology and market, what are the 4 different types of innovation? Provide an example for each. (5 Marks)

 

Organisation Culture

1. Please outline the relation between the organisational culture and organizational structure? Explain the steps for creating organisational culture. Describe six socialization tactics? (10 Marks)

2. Discuss the practices that can be used by an organisation to create an ethical organisational culture. What is a positive organisational culture? Explain. (10 Marks)

3. Over the past few years, the profitability of Mobius Ltd has been significantly declining against the expected projections mainly due to aggressive competition and economic hardships that characterize the market. In addition, results from a recently conducted cultural/employee attitude survey indicated that Mobius Ltd employees lack cohesion, motivation, commitment. The organisation’s engagement quotient scores were below the sector benchmark of competitor organisations. During the last organisational engagement survey track action planning, staff found it challenging to engage in a meaningful manner with the action planning process. The company has a rank & file structure in place and is hierarchical in its approach. More importantly as indicated in the engagement survey, employees at Mobius Ltd seems to have significantly low levels of job satisfaction, teamwork, trust (among themselves and the management), and expectations for future advancements (promotions and rewards). On the same note, there was a 30% increase in pilfering of company resources as evidenced from the analysis of company data, an all-time high absenteeism rate to add to the woes of the company . The 18% increase in last year’s staff turnover is also an issue that needs to be addressed. Considering these issues, the CEO of Mobius Ltd strongly suggested that there is need for change if the company is to survive the current unforgiving market and economic trends. This he attributed to the fact that the current culture adopted by the company was the root cause of the poor performance exhibited by the company. As such, an external party report has been necessitated by the need to identify, analyse, and solve the cultural and behavioural issues that affect Mobius Ltd.

Questions:

a. What would you define as some key cultural attributes of Mobius Ltd? (5 Marks)

b. The HR Head has been tasked, to provide a detailed culture journey plan for the organisation with outcome milestones and indicative timelines. How would you approach this task and what would you do? (Focus on the key attributes to creating and sustaining organisational culture) (5 Marks)

 

Organisational Theory, Structure and Design

1. ‘Fruits Delicious Ltd’ has hired you as an HR Advisor to help them improve their organizational performance. Which internal organizational aspects would you consider that should be aligned with each other for maximum success? Explain the 7S framework in the context of this start-up company. Conclude by giving your opinion on how it will impact performance. (10 Marks)

2. Ryan always wanted to establish his own news agency. He had all the financial and physical resources required to begin but he was not aware of the key fundamental elements of an organization. Why do you think these are important? As an HR consultant, help him with this task by designing the main organizational elements. Also, align these with his business. (10 Marks)

3. As project leaders, while Sandy believes in enhancing team member’s effectiveness, Mathew believes in focusing on enhancing the overall organizational effectiveness. This difference of opinion always confuses their team members. Now, the senior management has realized that it is high time to get the issue sorted. So, the HR Manager, Steve Hussey has been assigned the task to devise a standardized and holistic process of measuring organizational effectiveness. Along with this, the management has also asked him to come up with a contemporary effectiveness approach that will replace the traditional approaches. Keeping the above scenario in mind,

a. Explain how Steve Hussey will devise a holistic process of measuring organizational effectiveness. (5 Marks)

b. Explain which, one, contemporary approach will Steve choose and why? (5 Marks)

 

Performance Management System

1. Jagruti Electric Motors is a startup company and has just introduced Two Wheeler electric scooters in India. The marketing team consists of 10 employees. You lead the marketing team and you need to prepare four Team goals that the marketing team needs to focus on. Use the concept of SMART goals while preparing the Team goals. (10 Marks)

2. “Forever Young” is a women’s premium brand dealing with women’s apparel, shoes, bags and other accessories. The brand has a pan-India presence in malls and online shopping. It has plans of launching globally starting with South East Asian countries. Prepare a Balanced Scorecard for “Forever Young” covering one goal each in Financial, Customer, Business Process and Learning & Growth quadrant. (10 Marks)

3. Using ‘’cost effectiveness’’ as the theme, prepare two SMART each for the following profiles:

a. Production Executive at a manufacturing company (5 Marks)

b. Dispatch Executive at a Logistics company (5 Marks)

 

Research Methodology

1. Develop a sample research proposal to represent the various steps of hypotheticodeductive method. (10 Marks)

2. What is meant by a dependent variable? Identify the one from the following theoretical model. State any six hypotheses from this model. Identify the mediating variable.

3. Zomato was listed on 23 July 2021 on NSE at 126 INR which has toppled 46 INR on 30 July 2022. There has been a consistent decline in the revenue of Zomato and increase in losses. The customers have raised concerns on poor quality of delivery and extra prices charged by Zomato. The manager is interested in identifying issues related to customer and other stakeholders for decline in the trust in brand.

a. Develop a questionnaire to survey the consumer and collect their response on what factors might be responsible for decline in consumers satisfaction? (5 Marks)

b. Identify some interview questions that you would use for deriving qualitative responses? Who will be ideal respondent for the interview? (5 Marks)

 

World Class Operations

1. Quality is an important parameter for companies to implement world class standards in operations. What are the different types of quality? Explain with suitable examples (10 Marks)

2. How is the Voice of the customer linked with the Voice of the organization in House of Quality? (10 Marks)

3. a. Being an operations manager, what do you understand by BPR? (5 Marks)

3. b. Explain the Principles of Re-engineering. (5 Marks)

 

Sales Management

1. Pharmaceutical salespeople are known to be given aggressive sales quotas and targets. Sales quota and target setting has 4 methodologies namely sales volume target/quota, activity target/ quota, profit target/quota and expenses/target quota. From your understanding of the pharma industry, what kind of sales target/quota methodology would you use for the pharma sales team and why? (10 Marks)

2. Sales forecasting is one of the most important tools for any large organizations to meet its revenue estimates. Popular forecasting tools are jury of executive opinion, poll of sales force opinion, projection of past sales, time series analysis and exponential smoothing. What method would you recommend for a startup organizations and why? (10 Marks)

3. Wipro is an Indian multinational with its headquarters based in Bangalore. It has total revenue of $9 Billion with net income of $1.4 Billion across all its business units which has both information technology and FMCG (Fast Moving consumer goods) products. Based on the success of local laptop brands in the Indian marketplace like HCL, Wipro would like to re-enter the laptop segment in India. Laptops as a product category fall in both the B2B (Business to Business) as well as B2C (Business to consumer) segments. As the Vice President Sales for Wipro laptops, you are required to come out with a sales management strategy covering sales methodology and budgeting:

a. Out of the 5 theories of buying namely AIDAS, Buying Formula theory, Behavioral equation theory SPIN and Right set of circumstances theory, which would be used by you to build a sales methodology for Wipro laptops? Please justify your choice of methodology (5 Marks)

b. Out of the top down and bottom up methodology for setting budgets which of them would be used by you for Wipro laptops division and why? (5 Marks)

 

Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Management

1. Starting a venture is not an easy task. A series of activities need to be planned and undertaken to create an enterprise. Discuss. (10 Marks)

2. “Innovation is the hallmark of Entrepreneurship”. Explain the statement with an example. (10 Marks)

3. Hemant’s grandfather owned a huge agricultural firm in the name of ‘Organica’. The company had huge acres of land in Kerala where it grew spices. The company planned to expand and was planning to buy land in Coorg, Karnataka where it will grow coffee. While visiting the place, Hemant saw that the villagers had to walk more than 10 kms of hilly terrain to reach the hospital and he also felt that the villagers did not have any work in the evening apart from doing agricultural work in the morning. For expansion purposes he required money and the chief financial officer of his company suggested that they raise the required funds directly from the public. Hemant also decided to open a hospital and a skill development centre for the villagers in the evening wherein they can learn a lot of new skills.

a. Explain the method of raising funds. (5 Marks)

b. What is the primary advantage that Hemant gains from the method he chooses to opt for funding? (5 Marks)

 

Corporate Finance

1. Refer the published Balance Sheet of any listed Company. Identify its sources of funds. Explain any 4 in brief. (Balance Sheet need not to be copied or pasted in the answer) Compare and rank the sources identified with respect to their cost to the company (high, low). Discuss your observation (10 Marks)

2. M/s Priya Industries Ltd. is evaluating 2 options of investments. Each one has the following mentioned Cash Flows. Evaluate the projects using: i) Pay-back period ii) NPV iii) IRR

(Show the calculations for each method.) Which option you as the Chief Finance Officer of the Company would you select? Give reasons. (10 Marks)

Year A B

0 -40000 -50000

1 5000 8500

2 12000 15000

3 10000 12000

4 12500 12300

5 10500 10500

3. a. Sunil is valuating 2 investment proposals:

i) Invest Rs. 3 lacs for 5 years earn an interest of 8% compounded quarterly.

ii) Investment of Rs. 20,000 per year for 5 years @ 10% compounded quarterly. Which option should he go for and why? (5 Marks)

3. b. Sanjana has a debenture of Par-value Rs. 100/- @ 6%. Calculate its current yield if: (5 Marks)

i) Market Price is Rs. 98.20

ii) Market Price is Rs. 102.00

What inference can you draw from this about the relation between Market price and yield?

 

Strategic Cost Management

1. The following information is available for a pen making business. Calculate the following: (10 Marks)

a) Contribution

b) PV Ratio

c) BE Ratio (in no. of units and value)

d) MOS

e) Number of pens to be sold to get a profit of Rs. 20,000/-

Sales Price of the pen Rs. 100/- each

Cost of refill Rs. 10/- per refill.

Ink cost Rs. 5 per ml. 2 ml of Ink is required for each pen.

Ball bearings Rs. 3 per bearing

Sticker on the pen Rs. 2 per sticker.

Fixed Costs Rs. 6,00,000 p.a.

2. Select the Financial Statements (Balance sheet / Profit & Loss) of any listed Company. Explain the use of and calculate any 5 ratios. Analyse. (10 Marks)

3. a. Explain what is meant by product mix analysis. What are the considerations to make product mix decisions. (5 Marks)

3. b. Sanjay is the owner of SSR Pvt. Ltd. He needs to item ‘A’ for his business. He can buy the item at Rs. 50/- per piece. Alternatively, he can produce it in-house. His accountant produces an estimate of the costs of production for the item. Basis that he advises Sanjay not to produce the item in-house as it was costlier. Comment on whether the accountant is right or not. Support with analysis. (5 Marks)

Direct Material Cost Rs. 20 per unit

Direct Labour Rs. 10 per unit

Power cost Rs. 5 per unit

Rent of factory allocated to Item A Rs. 18 per unit

Depreciation of Plant used for manufacturing A Rs. 6 per unit.

 

Capital Market and Portfolio Management

1. Assume that you are planning to invest in the capital market. What steps will you follow to start trading in the capital market. (10 Marks)

2. You are given the following information on two stocks BI and B2. The stock B1 performed well in slowdown as compared to B2. Both the shares are selling at Rs.90 per share. The estimated rupee return of the stock is given as follows:

Economy’s

Behaviour

High Growth Low Growth Stagnation Recession

Probability 0.45 0.25 0.2 0.1

Return on B1 90 98 106 122

Return on B2 120 104 72 48

Calculate the expected return and risk in the following cases:

1. When you invested 5000 in B1

2. When you invested 5000 in B2

Write down your preferences (10 Marks)

3. There is an ongoing debate regarding the fundamental analysis and technical analysis. One school of thought supports fundamental analysis, while the other school supports that stock market cannot work effectively without technical analysis” these statements have raised a confusion among the investors.

a. As a security analyst how do you effectively explain the difference between fundamental and technical analysis to the investors. (5 Marks)

b. Do you prefer one analysis over the other? Give reasons for your choice. (5 Marks)

 

Cost & Management Accounting

1. The data shown below relate to an industrial organization that manufactures household appliances.

Standard quantity required of materials item 0009 1 kg.

Standard price per kg. ₹ 10

Product in a month appliances 100 kgs.

Actual quantity of materials used 98 kgs.

Actual price paid ₹ 11/kg

The following calculations for variances have been made:

Material usage variance = 2 kgs. @ ₹ 11 = ₹ 22

Material price variance = 100 kgs. × ₹ 1 = ₹ 100

Do you agree with these calculations? If not, provide a correct calculation for the

variances. (10 Marks)

2. ABC Ltd. started a factory in Kolkata on 1st April, 2021. Following details are furnished about its activity during the year ended 31st March 2022.

Raw Material consumed – 40,000 units @ ₹7 per unit.

Direct Wages:

Skilled worker – ₹9 per unit.

Unskilled worker – ₹6 per unit.

Royalty (on raw material consumed) @ ₹3 per unit.

Works overheads @ ₹8 per machine hour.

Machine Hours Worked 25,000.

Office Overheads at 1/3rd of works cost.

Sales Commission @ ₹4 per unit.

Units produced 40,000

Stock of units at the end 4,000 units, to be valued at cost of production per unit. Sale price is ₹60 per unit. Prepare Cost sheet showing the various elements of cost. (10 Marks)

3. a. What are the implications of Economic Order Quantity in proper inventory management? (5 Marks)

3. b X Ltd. estimates its carrying cost at 15% and its ordering cost at ₹9 per order. The estimated annual requirement is 48,000 units at a price of ₹4 per unit.

a) What is the most economical number of units to order?

b) How many orders should be placed in a year?

c) How often should an order be placed? (5 Marks)

 

Marketing of Financial Services

1. Explain the concept of Online Marketing of financial services. How is it changing the way financial services are sold in India? (10 Marks)

2. One of your clients wants to apply for a Home Loan in the next 12 to 18 months. Few months back the client had lost his job and delayed his car loan repayments. The client is worried that this may impact his credit score maintained by Credit Bureaus. Suggest a roadmap to your client to improve his credit score. (10 Marks)

3. You are a Financial Planner. Your clients Ameet ( aged 33 years) and Supriya (aged 31 years), have a daughter Rima (aged 3 years) require your help to make few financial decisions. (You can make any assumptions to further build up your case.)

a. Ameet wants to buy a Life Insurance cover within a limited budget. He is confused whether he should buy a ULIP or a Term Plan. Recommend the product best suited for him giving valid reasons. (5 Marks)

b. Ameet and Supriya want to invest for their daughter Rima’s higher education for the long term (over 15 to 17 years). They want to know whether they should make lump sum equity mutual fund investments or invest in SIPs of Equity MFs. (5 Marks)

 

Taxation- Direct and Indirect

1. For the purpose of charging taxes, the Indian Income Tax Act, 1961 has identified and defined the specific heads of income. The charging sections of each head defines the scope of income to be charged under each head. Discuss precisely all the heads of income as mentioned under the Income Tax Act 1961. (10 Marks)

2. GST N is a non-government body. This body handles the IT system of the GST Portal. Discuss the functions discharged by the GSTN in details (10 Marks)

3. Mrs Meera purchased a residential house property on August 6, 2019for R 30 lakhs. She made certain capital expenditure for the house in the month of January 2020 for Rs2 lakhs. She disposed off the property in April 2021, for Rs 40Lakhs.

a. Discuss about the exemption available under section 54 (5 Marks)

b. Considering Section 54, Discuss the amount of exemption if any, amount of type of capital gain taxable in the hands of Mrs. Meera if she purchased another property from the sales proceed in the month of May 2021. (5 Marks)

 

 

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